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Communication 3: Taking "No" For An Answer

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students play a rejection game and fill in sentences about taking and accepting "no" for an answer. In this taking "no" worksheet, students also discuss how asking more than twice is aggression.
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The Passive Voice in Spanish

For Teachers 6th - 12th
The passive voice was mastered by Spanish learners. Your class members can find out all about how to create the passive voice in Spanish using ser, past participles, por, and the impersonal se. Examples are provided for each situation.
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Whip up a Storm of Writing Ideas

For Students 7th - 12th Standards
Need a key to unlock writer's block? Introduce your writers to four easy steps that will release them from their mental prison. The brainstorming worksheet, designed to set free their imaginations, even has an answer key.
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Translate and Evaluate

For Teachers 7th
Hopefully nothing gets lost in translation. Pupils translate between verbal phrases and algebraic expressions. They then use candy to determine what values to substitute into the expressions.
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Emphatic Adjectives

For Students 6th - 12th
Ensure that your learners have a wonderful, fabulous, astonishing, outstanding knowledge of adjectives. This resource focuses in particular on strong adjectives. Included are a few pages of explanation and instruction, two exercises, and...
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Out of the Dust: Questioning Strategies

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to address the many levels of comprehension. With explanations and examples of each level, you can create questions that focus on knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
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Weather on the Internet

For Teachers 5th - 9th
What the weather like today? How about in other countries? In Celsius and Fahrenheit? Have your learners use the Internet to look up the weather in Spanish! They'll discuss their findings in Spanish with a partner and create a chart over...
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Vocabulary Fill-In-The-Blank: "Wishes Again"

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students click on a set of multiple choice "button" to find the correct word that completes a sentence. Page contains links to additional activities.
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Punctuation Cards

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this literacy worksheet, students work with the cards in order to develop the skills of punctuation. They concentrate upon word form and sentence structure.
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Speech Marks

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students will read through a transcript. They then brainstorm words that demonstrate that people are talking. Students then rewrite the transcript report as a description of the actual conversation.
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More Reporting Verbs

For Students 4th - 7th
In this verb forms worksheet, learners read 8 sentences with missing verbs. They must choose the correct word from a word bank, then change that verb to past tense in order to correctly complete each sentence.
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Question Forms Using Verb "to do" as an Auxiliary Verb (Present Simple Tense) 3

For Students 4th - 5th
In this language arts worksheet, students analyze 10 sentences which have the words in scrambled order. Students rearrange the words to make a question using the verb "to do." Example: you do OK feel (Do you feel OK?)
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Writing Catchy Introductions

For Students 6th - 7th
In this introductory paragraph activity, students learn techniques for writing an attention-catching introductory paragraph. Students then read several introductory paragraphs and determine which strategies were used.
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Days of the Week - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this order word instructional activity, students work with the days of the week using the words, "today is, yesterday was, and tomorrow will be." They look at pictures showing activities that are labeled with the names of the days of...
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Too Much or Too Little Information

For Students 4th
In this problems containing information worksheet, 4th graders read 2 short math scenarios and then answer 2 short answer math questions and 1 math question with multiple choice answers.
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Homonyms - Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th
In this homonyms learning exercise, students choose the correct word from each set of three homonyms in order to complete in each sentence correctly.
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Icky Fingers

For Teachers K - 1st
Students are introduced to digraphs so they can match letters to their phonemes. They recognize the short vowel i=/i/ in both spoken and written words by practicing reading and spelling words containing /i/. Elkonin Letter Boxes are...
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Poor Crying Baby

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars examine the letter 'a'. Through instruction and modeling and a variety of practice activities, they explore the sound the letter makes and how the letter is written. They recite tongue twisters and read stories and pick...
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The Doctor Sound

For Teachers K
Students complete a variety of activities related to the /o/ sound. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then trace and write the letter O. Students then listen to the teacher read "The Ox Book," identify the words in the story...
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Reading Comprehension

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen and read along as a story is read to them. They discuss what they read when finished with the text. Students discuss the story vocabulary and the word meanings. They practice decoding unknown words and complete a...
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Read, Read, Read !

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students perform repeated readings of the same text to increase their reading fluency and expression. They practice reading sentences from the board aloud to practice fluency. They read "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" as a class.
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Fluency is Fantastic

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars, through teacher modeling and guided activities, practice their word decoding and blending skills in order to become more fluent readers. Reading aloud to a partner, they practice reading smoothly and with expression.
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Get Ready to Race!

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Student increase their reading fluency through the use of various strategies. After reviewing decoding and rereading, young scholars complete an initial read of a novel text. Working with a partner, they read complete a timed assessment...
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Short Vowel U

For Students 1st
In this short u sound worksheet, 1st graders use the word bank with short u words to complete the sentences. Students use the picture words to help them order the sentence.